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The power level itself is not a good indicator of cable (coax) problems.

Modems can work well with signals as low as -15.

I'd guess you had an intermittent bad connection that was giving you trouble.


Thanks...then what is a good indicator of cable (coax) problems?

Anyway, replacing the old ...

Okay...

That's five days without a drop. Soooooooo, if you're having a similiar problem, I'd suggest checking the Downstream Power Level and make sure it's showing -7 to -8 db's. If it's not, have your cable company put in a new cable line from the pole to the house.

My old cable line was about ...

Okay...for anyone that's following this thread. The cable tech came out today and discovered I was losing alot of my signal from the pole to the house, so he changed out the old cable wire with some new cable.

I think that got it. Before, my signal was around -10db to -13db. Now, it's steady at ...

Okay, thanks for the tips guys. A techs coming out tomorrow to take a look. I'll post back and let you know what happens.

where is this

I'm not sure where it is on Speedguide, but if you have a motorola modem, check it here.

Last night I decided to permit aka my firewall an
intrusion that I wasn't to sure about, that had tried to enter several time over the last few days.

It had .rr (roadrunner) in the info, but I didn't like the Windows Kernel Core Component part.

Anyway, I let it in last night and haven't had a ...

Have any of you checked your signal levels on the diagnostics page? Sounds like a line signal issue to me.

Yeah, mine look okay...





Downstream Value
Frequency 591000000 Hz Locked
Signal to Noise Ratio 35 dB
QAM 256
Network Access Control Object ON
Power Level -10 dBmV The Downstream ...

If you find a solution, let me know. (I'll do the same)

I have 98SE and a Motorola SB4100 cable modem and I'm using
Roadrunner cable service.

I keep getting dropped from my connection, and I have to unplug the modem, wait a couple of minutes, plug it back in.

It's getting old fast...

Anyone have similiar problems and know a fix?

What OS are you running? It's possible that you have a corrupt TCP/IP stack. This is a common symptom in this case, where you can ping from command line and not access web pages from the browser.

Hope you don't mind if I butt in here...but, I'm having a similiar problem and was wondering how I ...

If you want to try a program, here's a bunch of freebies. I use the
"Gadwin Printscreen 2.5"...works for me



http://www.webattack.com/freeware/gmm/fwscreen.shtml

I find myself saying Hmmmmm...more than I used to.

Originally posted by SeedOfChaos
Where are the newbs? I haven't noticed a really bad one lately. Did I miss something or what?

I'm not really a newb...I already have a post